stag cast in China in the seventeenth century; director Friedrich Flick gave
HG a “Gothic hunting chamber” for Carinhall; on Jan. , , Walter
Hofer (acting on HG’s behalf) purchased with funds of C & A Brennink-
meyer (RM,) an altarpiece by Cornelius Engelbrechtsen, and with
funds provided by the Reemtsma cigarette corporation an “early Renais-
sance tapestry.”Chapter : Murder Manager
Blaschke: Interrog., Nbg., Nov. , . Backe’s words are quoted from the di-
ary of his wife, Ursula, May and June , .
S.A. crisis: See Heinz Höhne’s excellent investigation in Mordsache Röhm
(Hamburg: ).
Darré: Overheard in CCPWE, no. X-P, May , . In general on the
Röhm crisis, I used the Liebmann Papers in IfZ (ED.), Milch’s diaries
and notebooks (DJ film ), the papers of Eduard Wagner (SI) and of
General von Fritsch (see first note to Chapter ), and Klaus-Jürgen
Müller’s authoritative history of the Reichswehr and the Röhm affair i n
Militärwissenschaftliche Mitteilungen (), p. ff.
Landespolizei: Initially the Landespolizeigruppe Wecke (Special Purposes);
then, from Dec. , , the Landespolizeigruppe “General Göring”; and
from Sept. , , incorporated as the HG regiment into the Luftwaffe.
Phipps: Dispatch to F.O., June , , in DBFP () vi, p. ff; diaries of Milch
and Darré.
Mussolini: Graham to F.O., Oct. , , in Documents on British Foreign Policy
(DBFP) vols., no. . And Pompeo Alois diary, Nov. , , French edi-
tion, Paris . Decrypt of Italian ambassador’s dispatch of May , ,
in German Central Archives, Potsdam, file .
Lipski: See Marian Wojciechowski’s book on Polish-German relations,
– (Leiden: ), and Lipski’s diary, now in his papers in the Pilsud-
ski Institute, New York. I also used HG interrog., U.S. State Dept., Nov.
, and by Shuster, July , .
Renzetti: Letter to Mussolini, June , (NA film T//ff).
Managers of June : Darré, in X-P, May , .
Lutze: Viktor Lutze’s diary was published in the Hannoversche Presse in .
Popp: Information from Neuenhoff (see note “Forschungsamt,” Chapter )
and Milch memoirs (SI).
Brückner: His affidavits dated May , , and June , , are in my col-
lection (SI); I also interviewed Hitler’s private secretary, Christa Schroe-
der, about the events of this day.
Göring in Berlin: HG in conversation with Werner Bross: Gespräche mit
Hermann Göring, p. ; Papen in conversation with a British officer, May
, (X-P); my interview with Milch, Dec. , (SI); Blomberg MS
(SAIC/FIR/). Further detail on June , , in Berlin from Meissner,
interrog., July , (OCMH); HG interrog., Nbg., Oct. , ; Frick
interrog., July , (OCMH); Darré conversation, May , (X-P),
and diary; letter from Renzetti to Mussolini, July , (NA film
T//ff).
S.A. headquarters: HG interrog. by Shuster, July , . He added that Ernst